Meves's starling

{{Short description|Species of bird}}

{{Speciesbox

| name = Meves's starling

| image = Lamprotornis mevesii 107565583.jpg

| image_caption=In Mapungubwe National Park, Limpopo, South Africa

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2016 |title=Lamprotornis mevesii |volume=2016 |page=e.T103871956A94258807 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T103871956A94258807.en |access-date=11 November 2021}}

| taxon = Lamprotornis mevesii

| authority = (Wahlberg, 1856)

| synonyms =

| range_map = Verbreitungsgebiet-Distribution area Lamprotornis mevesii.jpg

| range_map_caption = {{legend0|#23df01| native range}}

}}

Meves's starling (Lamprotornis mevesii) or Meves's glossy-starling, is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Its common name and Latin binomial commemorate the German ornithologist Friedrich Wilhelm Meves.{{cite book|last=Beolens|first=Bo|title=Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds|year=2003|publisher=Christopher Helm|location=London|page=233|author2=Watkins, Michael}}

Gallery

Glossy Starling, at Kruger National Park, South Africa (13877660855).jpg|Juvenile bird in the Kruger Park

Meves's starling, Lamprotornis mevesii, at Mapungubwe National Park, Limpopo, South Africa. (47135565862).jpg|Adult bird showing coppery iridescence on flank plumage

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